Devout Catholics do take this verse in its entirety--as relevant today. However Baptists like myself--understand it as women covered head in the Jewish tradition at the time to showed modesty and respect for God's house. The modesty and respect for God's house is the relevant message to us--gaudy make-up and short skirts are out in other words. And I think wearing jeans to church is like "showing your hair" in the jewish time.

It's a Middle Eastern custom. There's no logical reason women outside of the Middle East should wear a hijab since it's not their custom. It makes as much sense as an Eskimo wearing cowboy boots in the Arctic on an ice floe while hunting seals.

Vatican, London and Washington as far as I know are not the Middle East

If women all covered their hair or cut it off, all of the beauty salons would go out of business and crash the economy. It could be worse than the mortgage meltdown. Add to that the hair spray industry and all of the other products incomprehensible to men, and the Dow would go through the floor. No, no, we can't have women covering their hair.

What? You mean that hair? Oh, well, I suppose that should be covered. Is that what Corinthians really means?

The enumeration in the Constitution, of certain rights, shall not be construed to deny or disparage others retained by the people.